Cherry and Violet: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Cherry and Violet, credited to Anne Manning, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Cherry and Violet by Anne Manning. Read in English by MichelleLeeVO; Rita Boutros; mleigh; Ritu Aarcee; Ricki A Tale of the Great Plague. 1666 was a difficult year in London. With its sordid materialism and its coarse handling of things most sacred, not merely does Manning see, as an Englishwoman, the grandeur of its struggles, but she sees its best embodiment in the tragedy of an almost perfect life. In her description of the plague (much detail taken from the diarist, Pepys), followed by The Great Fire, Manning is taken out of her comfort zone to the sordid realities. Her answer is to take Mistress Cherry to a country house in Berkshire, where peace and tranquility are to be found. - Summary by Lynne Thompson

Recording facts

• Recording title: Cherry and Violet
• Author credits: Anne Manning
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 16
• Listed recording duration: 4:19:48

Catalogue topics

• plague
• fire
• seventeenth century

Track guide

1. 01 - The Reminiscences of Mistress Cherry.—The Fire, & Double Tide.—Mal-conversation — 15:35
2. 02 - Cherry endeavours to remember if she were pretty.—A Water-party — 17:55
3. 03 - Result of the Water-party — 17:53
4. 04 - Chelsea Buns — 18:14
5. 05 - A Shadow on the House — 17:01
6. 06 - Metanoia — 17:03
7. 07 - Signs in the Air — 20:00
8. 08 - The Plague — 10:32
9. 09 - Foreshadows — 14:39
10. 10 - A Friend in Need — 29:12
11. 11 - Distinction between would & should — 5:55
12. 12 - Camping out in Epping Forest — 16:46
13. 13 - Ghosts — 14:20
14. 14 - Riding a Pillion — 13:46
15. 15 - The Squire’s Garden — 16:39
16. 16 - The Burning City — 14:18

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